Rainbow flag on Grote Marktstraat

Netherlands 25: Riding from Duinrell to Den Haag

As the closest big city, Den Haag is a regular visit when we’re staying at Duinrell. Being just 13 km away on bike, it’s a fairly manageable ride, with multiple routes to choose from. With us staying at Duinrell for two weeks, we’d end up going there a couple of times on this trip.

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Looking across the beach to the pier at Scheveningen

Netherlands 25: Loop ride from Duinrell to Scheveningen

I had some spare time and the was sun shining. So I decided to head out on a ride to Scheveningen, the seaside town in Den Haag, southwest of Duinrell. This is somewhere we’ve been a few times in the past, but not actually that many. Last time was during our 2024 trip, as part of a ride to Den Haag and Madurodam.

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Cycling on the path next to Ommedijkseweg

Netherlands 25: Riding from Duinrell to Leiden

Being the closest city, Leiden is a popular choice for a day trip away from to Duinrell. Indeed, it’s somewhere we have been to every time we’ve stayed there and I’ve written about our rides to the city numerous times in 201520172022 and 2024.

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Monorail selfie

Netherlands 25: Two weeks at Duinrell

Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with our yearly trips to the holiday and amusement park Duinrell in the town of Wassenaar. In 2025, instead of staying at an additional location in the Netherlands as we had done for a number of years, we’d arranged to spend the full two weeks at Duinrell.

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View from Uitzichtpunt Binnenhof

Netherlands 24: Riding to Den Haag and Scheveningen via Madurodam

Among the regular places we visit while we’re at Duinrell is the fantastic miniature park Madurodam. It’s somewhere we’ve been going since our first stay at Duinrell in 2012, with good reason, as there’s so much to see and do there.

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Burgemeester Waaijerbrug

Netherlands 24: Riding to the Burgemeester Waaijerbrug bridge

With some time to spare for a ride, I decided to head out to somewhere I’d been before, the Burgemeester Waaijerbrug bridge. This distinctive structure is somewhere I’d ridden to back in 2018, as part of a ride to Zoetermeer, after reading all about it on Bicycle Dutch.

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